KEY WEST, Fla. — A beachgoer found 25 packages of cocaine in the Florida Keys on Sunday.
The drugs were found around 4 p.m. near a pier on the Old Highway in Islamorada and weighed about 80 pounds, according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol in Miami Samuel Briggs II said the packages are worth over $1 million. He said in a post that Hurricane Debby blew the cocaine onto the beach.
The drugs were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol, which will investigate.
This is the latest in a string of recent discoveries of cocaine along Florida shores. On July 28, a fisherman found 25 packages of cocaine offshore of north Key Largo and a few days earlier, a person diving for lobster found a brick of cocaine.